Elastic No-No Band was a part of the New York Anti-Folk scene (see:
The REAL Sound of Anti-Folk) from 2004 to 2011. "The Deli" magazine once dubbed them "NYC Antifolk's
Frank Zappa and
The Mothers Of Invention."
Led by singer-songwriter
Justin Remer, the "band" initially started as a solo home-recording project. This grew to a trio, which included
Preston Spurlock on bass and Herb Scher (of
Herb Scher and the Key Lime Pie Revue) on keyboards. For their first "proper" studio album,
My 3 Addictions (2007), Doug Johnson joined the band on drums. Later, John Mulcahy (of
The Telethons) joined the band on electric guitar.
The band's magnum opus is the 2010 45-track double album,
Fustercluck!!! - Part 1 &
Fustercluck!!! - Part 2. A mish-mash of studio, home, and live recordings, Fustercluck!!! also featured guest appearances from
Nan Turner of
Schwervon!,
Toby Goodshank of
The Moldy Peaches,
Brook Pridemore,
Thomas Patrick Maguire,
Debe Dalton, and other friends from the Anti-Folk scene.
The band contributed to a 4-group "exquisite corpse" recording of
Meat Loaf's "
Paradise by the Dashboard Light" in 2011, but slowly ground to a halt, with the release of a live album,
Charmingly Shambolic And Mostly Live (also in 2011), and a final "odds and sods" compilation,
Black No-No's, in 2012.
In 2020, Fustercluck!!! was re-ordered, partially remixed, and remastered for its 10th anniversary as
Decayed: A Re-Fuster-Dux Deluxe.
Justin Remer now records as
Duck the Piano Wire.